Brittany Perham is the author of Double Portrait (W.W. Norton, 2017), which received the Barnard Women Poets Prize; The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions, 2012); and, with Kim Addonizio, the collaborative chapbook The Night Could Go in Either Direction (SHP, 2016). She is a Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. She lives in San Francisco.

Sarah Barber is author of Country House, winner of the 2017 Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry, forthcoming in fall 2018; and The Kissing Party, published in 2010 by the National Poetry Review Press. Originally from St. Louis, MO, she now lives in rural upstate New York. She holds an MFA from the University of Virginia and a PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has taught since 2010 at St. Lawrence University, where she is Associate Professor of English. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, New Ohio Review, Crazyhorse, and others.

Libby Burton is the author of Soft Volcano, selected by Ross Gay as winner of the 2017 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, to be published in March 2018. She is a senior editor at Henry Holt, where she edits both fiction and nonfiction. She earned a BA from the University of Virginia and MFA from Columbia University. Her poetry has appeared in Tin House, Guernica, North American Poetry Review, and others. She is a recipient of the Stephen Dunn Prize and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers. 

Ryan Fox has published poems in The New Yorker, Boston Review, The Opiate, and others. He holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Virginia, where he was Poetry Editor of Meridian, and a JD from the Fordham University School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Intellectual Property Law Journal. A member of the New York State Bar, he is Policy & Advocacy Director at the Authors Guild.